What is Maintenance Mode in WordPress? How to Enable It?

Sometimes your WordPress blog needs to remain inaccessible to users and customers. It can be due to blog upgrade, the addition of new features or to address a technical issue or any other business issues. During these times, rather than giving the user an error page when they try to access, your WordPress blog can be set up in maintenance mode. The visitors can be shown with a maintenance page.

During this time, it is important that registered authorized users or only the administrators can access the front end and backend as they might be working on the matter in hand.

Consider the case where you want to do a major upgrade to your WordPress blog, for example, you want to upgrade to a new theme. In such cases, you can enable the maintenance mode and any visitor coming to your blog will see the maintenance page only. As an administrator, when you login to the dashboard you will be able to browse your blog without any issues.

There are a lot of WordPress plugins available in the market to enable maintenance mode on your WordPress blog.

WP maintenance mode is one of the simplest with all the most required features in order to enable maintenance mode.